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bistro il riccio

A light-food service tested inside the Politecnico di Milano student community.

Bistro il Riccio presents a light food service as a small ecosystem of recipes, labels, ingredients, and student rituals.
Type
Food service experiment
Context
Politecnico di Milano student community
Started
2025
Role
Co-founder, service design, brand, digital concept
Context

Bistro il Riccio explores food as service, community, and identity: tested through real lunches, prices, recipes, and feedback.

Process

Process

  1. 01

    Define an accessible vegetarian offer for study days.

  2. 02

    Test recipes, portions, price, containers, booking, and communication.

  3. 03

    Use a WhatsApp community to collect feedback after real lunches.

Outputs

Outputs

  • Meal service prototype
  • WhatsApp community
  • Booking flow
  • Feedback questionnaire
  • Visual identity
  • Menu and recipe archive
  • Website concept
Bistro il Riccio was tested inside a real student community, where meals, feedback, and informal conversations happened together.
The identity extends into small product objects, labels, and a deliberately handmade visual tone.
Recipe visuals translate the food offer into a light, direct, and recognizable language.
The service starts from real lunches: portions, appetite, price, and the rhythm of a university day.
Condiments and small packaged elements helped imagine the project as a flexible food system, not only a single menu.
Food preparation became part of the research, making quantities and repeatability visible.
The recipe archive gives the service a modular base for testing new meals.
The first users shaped the project through use: eating, comparing, commenting, and returning feedback.